Velma Pollard 1937-2025: “tiday fi mi/ tumaro fi yu”

The outpouring of expressions of loss over Velma’s death share a common theme: that not only was Velma a fine poet, short story writer, teacher and academic, she was a generous, kind and supportive person whom people were drawn to love.

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Berkley Wendell Semple

Berkley Wendell Semple was born in Guyana. He has published four collections of poetry, Lamplight Teller, awarded a 2004 Guyana Prize for Poetry, The Solo Flyer, The Central Station, and Flight and Other Poems, awarded the 2023 Guyana Prize for Literature, and has edited a book of student poems. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Callaloo, The Hampden-Sydney Review, The Caribbean Writer, for which he was awarded a Daily News Prize for poetry, and many other publications.

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